Today I felt like Chicken Little running around yelling the “sky is falling.” While most people were enjoying the eclipse I was running around like a chicken with no head. Sigh, it’s been a Monday for sure. All that grace I preached about yesterday morning from the pulpit flew out my window when I couldn’t drive down the street due to people parked in a no parking zone, getting their lawn chairs out to gawk at the solar movement of the century (I’m a bit sarcastic tonight). My husband told me I was an eclipse Grinch. I told him we were done talking… lol
It’s just one of those days. I spent an hour grocery shopping (least me children starve or so they say), forty minutes getting my teeth cleaned (always a fun time), two hours at the vet with a sick cat (this doesn’t include the visit last week for my bulldog), my work computer is in the shop (my sermon notes for next week are on that computer), I am fighting a late summer cold, and I can’t seem to stay within budget to save my life! Today is not the best of days, I’ve displaced grace. I am not hording grace I just misplaced it. On days like this I just want to run away, I have had the urge to cry most of the day, and all I want to do is sleep on my heating pad. I am at the moment waiting on my soup to be done (cabbage soup, I love it).
Oh, on days like this I need God to remind me how blessed I really am despite all the small obstacles that life is throwing my way. I live in a country that affords me the freedom to live the way I deem fit, I have food in the kitchen, I have a roof over my head, clothing aglore, a steady income, medical and dental coverage, and healthy children, I really have no right to complain.
Yet, I still feel like running around as if I’m chicken little screaming the “sky is falling, the sky is falling!” Because that is what it feels like to me. Do you ever have days like that? The song Rise Up by Rita Springer keeps popping in my head some of the lyrics are: I am blessed among the people, And I am blessed among the nations, I am blessed because I am loved by You, yeah I am loved and highly favored I am loved and highly favored Saved by the grace of a Mighty Savior
I am blessed because I am loved by You…
I don’t know how your Monday went or if you got to watch the solar eclipse today but if you ever have a day where your sky is falling remember you are loved by a Mighty Savior no matter if your sky is actually falling or you’re just having a bad day…
Jeremiah 17:7 My blessing is on those people who trust in me, who put their confidence in me… I do trust the Lord and later I will go into prayer; sitting in His soothing presence… a calm that only He can bring me… and He will renew this weary heart and restore my sky for another day.
Good Evening Ladies!